Andri Joël HarisonJosef Nejez – Sein Leben und sein Werk

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Josef Nejez (*1945): His life and work – with special consideration of his Missa pro vita ascendente Op.100

This book provides a comprehensive orientation about Professor Josef Nejez’s part-time musical activities as a composer, arranger and instrumentalist, it gives a chronological biography and a thematic overview of the stylistic elements and musical style in Nejez’s work. In this book, his first mass composition „Missa pro vita ascendente“ is analysed in detail, and its position within the genre history of the genre mass is considered. Furthermore, two sections of the book deal with the rehearsal and performance of this missa. The dignified work is not only guided by research interest, but is also intended to complement the introductions to Austrian church music in the second half of the 20th century. The extensive appendix consists of a chronological table, discography, catalogue raisonné and the minutes of a detailed conversation with Josef Nejez; it completes the exploratory and introductory character of the book.

The following new edition of a summary of Josef Nejez´s life and work may prove handy as an introduction to Nejez´s complete oeuvre, and so toward adressing a fruitfull future of music.

about the author

Andri Joël Harison (*1995 in Vienna) is currently performing as conductor, composer, pianist, improvisator and singer. He has won several prizes in the young musician competition “prima la musica” (2007– 2014). 2010 he represented Young Austrian Musicians during the 65th Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdroj (Poland). 2017 he won the „Espoir Prize“ in Piano Solo in the 18th International Music Competition in Osaka/Japan. In 2018 he received the Heinz Arnold Memorial Scholarship at the 5th International Young Talent Competition of the Richard Wagner Foundation Leipzig. From Viennese music through classical music to contemporary works and improvisation he delights his audience and the juries of national and international music competitions. Andri Joël Harison studies orchestra conducting with Johannes Wildner and correpetition with Konrad Leitner at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

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